Brooklyn Real Estate Round-Up for Monday, May 16

Pictured: A building for seniors in the LBGT community is slated for the Ingersoll Houses. Renderings via NYCHA

BROOKLYN, NY — Various affordable housing developments, a temporary library and plenty of new restaurants made the Brooklyn real-estate pages this week.

Bed-Stuy

• The Nail Belle is now offering eco-friendly beauty treatments on Malcolm X Boulevard (DNAinfo)

BoCoCa

• Fortis Property Group has yet to move ahead with a proposed mega-development in Cobble Hill (Patch)

Downtown Brooklyn

• One day, you may be able to ride an elevator up to the Brooklyn Bridge (Brownstoner)

Flatbush

• 123 units of affordable housing are headed for Rogers Avenue (Ditmas Park Corner)

Fort Greene

• A building for LGBT seniors is planned at the Ingersoll Houses (Patch)

Park Slope

• Hanki Everyday Korean is serving up traditional Korean cuisine on Seventh Avenue (DNAinfo)
• FemGYN is a new urgent care center for women's health needs (Park Slope Stoop)

Prospect-Lefferts Gardens

• Four & Twenty Blackbirds plans on serving wine, beer and desserts on Dean Street (DNAinfo)
• Urban Smoke, a "modern global" BBQ joint, is coming to Prospect Place (Patch)
• Ta-Nehisi Coates isn't going to be your new neighbor after all (Patch)

Red Hook and Gowanus

• Brooklyn CrossFit has opened a Red Hook location (DNAinfo)
• Starting in June, Bison & Bourbon will begin serving kosher food in a classy setting (Park Slope Stoop)
• The owner of Henri on Fifth is opening a second restaurant on 4th Avenue (Park Slope Stoop)

Sunset Park

• The Sunset Park Library may be relocated about 10 blocks away while its current location is turned into a residential building with a new library inside (Patch)

Williamsburg and Greenpoint

• A public hearing will be held on a proposed floating power plant in the Wallabout Channel (Patch)
• New York State may wind up seizing the land needed to finish Bushwick Inlet Park, in the hope of pushing the project forward (Brownstoner)